State Board of Education Vision:Every public school student in North Carolina will be empowered to accept academic challenges, prepared to pursue their chosen path after graduating high school, and encouraged to become lifelong learners with the capacity to engage in a globally-collaborative society.
State Board of Education Mission:The mission of the North Carolina State Board of Education is to use its constitutional authority to guard and maintain the right of a sound, basic education for every child in North Carolina Public Schools.
Friday, October 14, 2022
WSOC Charlotte | The Associated Press - October 10, 2022
A memorial service will be held this month for Judge David Lee, who presided for several years over a far-reaching North Carolina school funding case and ordered last year that taxpayer money be spent on student inequities.
Lee, a Superior Court judge, oversaw litigation called “Leandro” since late 2016. In March, Chief Justice Paul Newby assigned another judge to hear the next portion of the case. Lee had reached the mandatory retirement age for judges in January.
In November, Lee directed that $1.75 billion be moved from state coffers to government agencies to fund a remedial spending plan to help provide a constitutionally mandated “opportunity for a sound basic education” for at-risk children and those in poor regions.
Education WeekSarah Schwartz | Oct. 7, 2022: Most States Require Schools to Help Register Young Voters. Many Fail to Do It - But a new analysis finds that not all districts comply with these policies—and that the districts that don’t meet their states’ requirements have lower levels of young people registered to vote. The report is a joint study from the Fair Elections Center, a voting rights organization, and The Civics Center, an advocacy group that works on youth voter registration. The groups examined a sample of districts in Georgia and North Carolina, two states that require schools to provide students with voter registration forms.
Press Release-HPU Poll | Oct. 6, 2022: North Carolinians Cite School Safety as Top Issue Concern - The poll also asked North Carolinians to rate the importance of a series of issues for the state right now. Seventy percent or more of the respondents said school safety (74%), education (73%), inflation (73%), jobs (71%), health care (71%) and crime (70%) were very important issues in North Carolina today. Majorities also said that taxes (64%), voting rights (62%), voting integrity (61%), corruption (61%), abortion (58%), race relations (53%) and infrastructure (52%) were very important issues in North Carolina. Less than majorities said climate change (46%), COVID-19 (46%) and public transportation (43%) were very important issues in North Carolina.
EdNC Ferrel Guillory| Perspective | Big education issues, but how much ballot power? - A lengthening procession of education policy proposals awaits the next North Carolina General Assembly, whose 170 members will be elected between Oct. 20 when early voting opens and Nov. 8 when the polls close. The moment begs the question: To what extent can voters exert their power at the ballot box to influence education legislation?
Video Message on School Nutrition from SBE Chair Eric Davis - NC State Board of Education Chair Davis shares a message to encourage everyone to support farm to school and school meals, participate in the #NCCrunch, celebrate #F2SMonth and #NSLW, and lift up our #NCSchoolNutritionHeroes and #FarmtoSchoolHeroes!
Dr. Courtney Knoll, CPA, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, Clinical Professor of Accounting, Associate Dean of the Master of Accounting Program, and Executive Director of the UNC Tax Center
Kelli Knoble, CPA, Grant Thornton LLP, Partner – National Tax Business Line Leader
Scott Showalter, CPA, NCSU Poole College of Management, Professor of Practice and Director of the Master of Accounting Program
The N.C. Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) and North Carolina Collaboratory are leading a joint $6.73 million effort to spur research on the impact of COVID-19 on student learning in the state, with the goal of helping educators and students recover from pandemic-related disruptions and lost instructional time.
Based on priorities identified by NCDPI’s Office of Learning Recovery and Acceleration (OLR), the partnership will fund 20 academic research teams across North Carolina to understand the effectiveness of existing state and local programs and policies that were supported through federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) legislation.
NCDPI will work closely with all funding recipients throughout their projects. As a result, this unique program will strengthen partnerships between state education leaders and academic researchers on a priority issue that impacts many North Carolinians.
EdNC’s Consider It Mapped is back with a map of the most recent school performance grades, released by the NC Department of Public Instruction (DPI) in September. Since grades were last reported in 2018-19, the pandemic happened, and the overall 2021-22 visualizations of As, Bs, Cs, Ds, and Fs reflects this disruption in learning. This map was designed to allow you to envision alternative approaches to grading by changing the growth score weight.
Click here if viewing on a tablet and here if viewing on mobile.
A refresher on the maps and data
Since it has been awhile, here is a quick primer explaining the school grading system in North Carolina:
NC DPI reports school performance grades annually. Reporting of A-F letter grades began in 2013-14.
Academic achievement, including measures of student progress like test scores (ex. End-of-Grade, End-of-Course, and ACT test results), graduation rates, and measures of work readiness, makes up 80% of a school’s grade. School growth, measured by the extent to which students met or exceeded the state’s performance expectations for that school for that year, makes up the other 20%. The formula is set by legislation passed by the N.C. General Assembly.
NC DPI reports grades on a 15-point scale. Original legislation was written with the intent to establish a 10-point grading scale, but in 2019, lawmakers made the 15-point grading scale permanent with Session Law 2019-154 (Section I).
Here you can find more information about school performance grades, including the executive summary, the annual testing report, the background brief on the accountability framework, and the communication webinar.
WBTV David Whisenant | Oct. 13, 2022:Governor Cooper visits Concord High School - From Cabarrus County Schools: North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper visited Concord High School on Thursday, Oct. 13th, to celebrate Jump Start Jobs Week -- a community-wide event to connect local employers with high school students in the Jobs for North Carolina’s Graduates (JNCG) program. Governor Cooper visited students in the classroom at CHS to discuss the role Communities in Schools North Carolina(CISNC) is having on their future career choices.
WSOC Charlotte | The Associated Press - October 10, 2022
